National plans
Country |
Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom |
The UK revised its national oil spill contingency plan in 2006. In accordance with the plan, regional Environmental Groups were set up across the UK. Each regional area has a list of experts and expert groups that serve on the regional Environmental Group. The Environmental Group advises the incident command on environmental issues, including wildlife aspects of the response. |
agreed (and exercised) |
| The Netherlands |
Representatives from the coastal municipalities, national authorities, rehabilitation centres and scientific institutes signed The Netherlands’ national oiled wildlife contingency plan in April 2009, after Sea Alarm first raised the issue of oiled wildlife response with Dutch authorities in 2005. |
agreed (and exercised) |
| Sweden |
Under construction |
discussed |
| Shetland (Scotland, UK) |
The Shetland oiled wildlife plan was written by the Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group (SOTEAG) through its Wildlife Response Co-ordinating Committee (WRCC). In 1990, the plan became an integral part of both the Sullom Voe Harbour oil spill response plan and the contingency plan for the whole of Shetland. |
agreed |
| Portugal |
Under construction |
discussed |
| Norway |
Norway has experienced a significant number of oil spill incidents that affected (or threatened) oiled wildlife, which have lead to the start of a national oiled wildlife response planning process. |
discussed |
| Ireland |
Ireland is in the process of updating its oil spill response plans led by the Irish Coast Guard. Each of the 20 coastal counties is charged with the task to develop a local authority oil/HNS contingency plan, according to a predefined structure. This structure requires a section called "Procedure for dealing with contaminated birds". |
discussed |
| Germany |
In Germany, oiled wildlife responders are in a process of determining and adopting best practices for the cleaning and rehabilitation of oiled wildlife. |
draft |
| France |
France has explicit instructions in place for wildlife response plans. They are well integrated into the overall oil spill response plan as Annex 5 of the French Polmar Land oil spill plan, for which the local administrations are responsible. |
agreed |
| Finland |
The Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), the national Rescue Service and leading NGOs are involved in a number of activities to improve and maintain preparedness for oiled wildlife incidents. |
agreed (and exercised) |
| Estonia |
In the aftermath of a mystery spill in 2006 which resulted in the oiling of several thousand birds, Estonian authorities developed and iplemented an national wildlife response plan. |
agreed |
| Belgium |
Following the Tricolor incident in 2003, Belgium started to develop a national response plan, which was implemented in 2005. |
agreed (and exercised) |